Blowing my own trumpet
Sep 6th 2007, 9:56 am
#16
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Re: Blowing my own trumpet
it points out to my brain that I really am going up and down in a fairly terrifying manner 
I can do anything now - just as long as I have a packet of Kwells and a few Solpadeine close at hand
Sep 6th 2007, 10:10 am
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Re: Blowing my own trumpet
Today me and hubby went up to Southport to do our boat licences. Not looking forward to it as I only have to look at a boat moored on water to be violently sick. Dosed myself up with Kwells and got there to find the classroom was a floating one I was terrified. To put it in perspective - I have been very very sick on the Grand Union Canal in a barge for an hour 
Anyway the Kwells worked, I managed nearly six hours in the floating classroom and two hours on a boat in the Broadwater. I did the exercises in the boat without killing anyone else - never having been in a small boat before and we both came away with our boat licences 
I am so bloody proud of myself and hubby keeps looking at me as though I am someone else entirely and keeps telling people how brill I was. I just needed to tell you lot
Maybe, just maybe, if I ever go to New York again, I will actually be able to get on the ferry to see Ellis Island without sobbing in total fear and being violently ill just looking at the rest of my family going without me
I was terrified. To put it in perspective - I have been very very sick on the Grand Union Canal in a barge for an hour Anyway the Kwells worked, I managed nearly six hours in the floating classroom and two hours on a boat in the Broadwater. I did the exercises in the boat without killing anyone else - never having been in a small boat before and we both came away with our boat licences I am so bloody proud of myself and hubby keeps looking at me as though I am someone else entirely and keeps telling people how brill I was. I just needed to tell you lot
Maybe, just maybe, if I ever go to New York again, I will actually be able to get on the ferry to see Ellis Island without sobbing in total fear and being violently ill just looking at the rest of my family going without me
Sep 6th 2007, 10:44 am
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Re: Blowing my own trumpet
Skipper Moneypen
well done
well done
Sep 6th 2007, 10:45 am
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Re: Blowing my own trumpet
Congratulations. I have mine in two weeks time. Apparently no one fails it; and I have never failed a test in my life. Does that sound like tempting fate
Sep 6th 2007, 10:46 am
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Sep 6th 2007, 10:46 am
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Re: Blowing my own trumpet
Today me and hubby went up to Southport to do our boat licences. Not looking forward to it as I only have to look at a boat moored on water to be violently sick. Dosed myself up with Kwells and got there to find the classroom was a floating one I was terrified. To put it in perspective - I have been very very sick on the Grand Union Canal in a barge for an hour Anyway the Kwells worked, I managed nearly six hours in the floating classroom and two hours on a boat in the Broadwater. I did the exercises in the boat without killing anyone else - never having been in a small boat before and we both came away with our boat licences
I am so bloody proud of myself and hubby keeps looking at me as though I am someone else entirely and keeps telling people how brill I was. I just needed to tell you lot
Maybe, just maybe, if I ever go to New York again, I will actually be able to get on the ferry to see Ellis Island without sobbing in total fear and being violently ill just looking at the rest of my family going without me
I was terrified. To put it in perspective - I have been very very sick on the Grand Union Canal in a barge for an hour Anyway the Kwells worked, I managed nearly six hours in the floating classroom and two hours on a boat in the Broadwater. I did the exercises in the boat without killing anyone else - never having been in a small boat before and we both came away with our boat licences I am so bloody proud of myself and hubby keeps looking at me as though I am someone else entirely and keeps telling people how brill I was. I just needed to tell you lot
Maybe, just maybe, if I ever go to New York again, I will actually be able to get on the ferry to see Ellis Island without sobbing in total fear and being violently ill just looking at the rest of my family going without me
Sep 6th 2007, 10:51 am
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Re: Blowing my own trumpet
Well done Moneypen, I wish I could draw on your strength to conquer things that I'm not particulary keen on doing.
S xx
S xx
Sep 6th 2007, 10:57 am
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Re: Blowing my own trumpet
Well done!! You've got every right to blow your own trumpet 
Sep 6th 2007, 11:32 am
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Re: Blowing my own trumpet
Hubby says its more of a money-making exercise than anything else and its probably the young tearaways they are interested in; not the family types that are set for a bit of recreational fun.
Good luck though - do you want me to test you from the manual?
Jules x
Sep 6th 2007, 11:33 am
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Re: Blowing my own trumpet
Great stuff
Sep 6th 2007, 11:42 am
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Re: Blowing my own trumpet
Let us know how you get on. We keep meaning to book ours, but someting always crops up
Hubby says its more of a money-making exercise than anything else and its probably the young tearaways they are interested in; not the family types that are set for a bit of recreational fun.
Good luck though - do you want me to test you from the manual?
Jules x
Hubby says its more of a money-making exercise than anything else and its probably the young tearaways they are interested in; not the family types that are set for a bit of recreational fun.
Good luck though - do you want me to test you from the manual?
Jules x
I must read the manual again. I read it when we first got the boat but have forgotten most of it
Sep 6th 2007, 11:53 am
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Re: Blowing my own trumpet
Yeah, its the idiots that go 5 miles out in a tinny with no radio but a case of beer they are after. It is complusory though from April, and the water police DO checks on safety etc- we saw them at it hiding behind the harbour wall at Ocean Reef on Sunday
I must read the manual again. I read it when we first got the boat but have forgotten most of it
I must read the manual again. I read it when we first got the boat but have forgotten most of it
It's one of those things that's probably worse thinking about that actually doing.
Is Sam doing it too?
J
Sep 6th 2007, 12:10 pm
#30
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Re: Blowing my own trumpet
When I said park either side of no.3 that's not quite what I meant.